(Reuters) - New York Knicks guard Raymond
Felton was arrested on gun possession charges on Tuesday after his
wife's divorce attorney took a weapon that was allegedly his to a local
police station, authorities said.

Felton, 29, was not registered to have the gun in New York City
and was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third
degree and with criminal possession of a firearm, authorities said.

The professional basketball player turned himself in to face the
charges early on Tuesday and appeared at a late-afternoon hearing in
Manhattan Criminal Court before Judge Diane Boyar, who set bail at
$25,000.

Wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, Felton left the courthouse in
downtown Manhattan after the hearing without making any comment. He
was driven away in a black Cadillac Escalade.

A police source said the semi-automatic large-capacity pistol,
loaded with about 18 bullets, was taken to a police station near the
couple's home on Manhattan's Upper West Side late Monday by an
attorney representing the player's wife, Ariane Raymondo-Felton, 26,
who filed for divorce last week.